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20090917

Video: Lorenzo At 13 Years Old - "I Want To Be World Champion"
"Hi, my name is Giorgio Lorenzo, I'm 13 years old, and I want to be world champion." Prophetic words indeed. The Spanish website Daily Motos has a fascinating video sent to them by Chicho Lorenzo, father of Fiat Yamaha rider Jorge Lorenzo and produced by the Spanish TV station IB3, with fragments from Lorenzo's past. The Spanish-language video features footage of the Mallorcan prodigy riding as a 13 year old, as well as more recent shots of Lorenzo riding...

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20090917

Honda To Offer More Factory-Spec Satellite Machines
Ever since the inception of the MotoGP era, Honda has borne most of the burden of keeping the grid full of bikes, never supplying less than 6 machines. In the heyday of the 990s, any one of those bikes, satellite or factory, was capable of a podium on any given day. That all changed with the advent of the 800s. HRC's grave miscalculation of what it would take to build a winning 800cc MotoGP bike left the factory struggling, and satellite spec Hondas went from a prerequisite for success to a liability.

That could be all about to change, according to the Motorcycle News.

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20090825

Yang to take on Tiger again at HSBC Champions in Shanghai
PGA Championship winner Yang Yong-eun will renew his rivalry with Tiger Woods on Asian soil in November after confirming his participation at the $7 million HSBC Champions Monday.

The 37-year-old South Korean, who became the first Asian man to win a major by out-dueling world number one Woods in Minnesota this month, will return to Shanghai for the November 5-8 tournament, now a World Golf Championship (WGC) event.

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20090822

Punt hits video screen at new Cowboys Stadium
Spending $1.2 billion on a football stadium can get you a lot, but apparently not a good sense of how high to hang 2,100-inch video screens above the field.

At the debut of the new Dallas Cowboys stadium last night, Tennessee Titans punter A.J. Trapasso kicked a ball that struck one of the gargantuan high-definition scoreboards that hang over the center of the field. Trapasso's punt sailed straight up and hit one of the two scoreboards that face the endzone....

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